President Donald Trump shared on Fact Social a photograph and video footage of a shooter’s try and barrel previous a safety checkpoint on the White Home Correspondents’ Dinner.
The video, shared shortly earlier than a rapidly convened press convention on the White Home on Saturday night time, exhibits a blur of a person working previous legislation enforcement officers standing close to magnetometers on the Washington Hilton.
Trump additionally posted a photograph of the suspect seen shirtless on the bottom along with his palms restrained behind his again.
“The person has been captured. They’ve gone to his condominium,” Trump mentioned. He added that the suspect is in his 30s and from California.
“He’s a sick individual, a really sick individual, and we don’t need issues like this to occur,” Trump added.
One legislation enforcement officer was shot in the course of the incident however was sporting a bulletproof vest.
“The vest did the job. I simply spoke to the officer and he’s doing nice, nice form,” Trump mentioned on the press convention.
Trump additionally used the capturing to advertise his plans for a brand new White Home ballroom, saying it is going to be “drone proof” with “bulletproof glass.”
“That’s why the navy are demanding it,” Trump mentioned.
“They’ve wished the ballroom for 150 years, for lots of various causes, however at the moment is somewhat bit totally different, as a result of we want ranges of safety that nobody has most likely ever seen earlier than,” Trump added.
Requested by a reporter how he’s coping following a number of assassination makes an attempt, Trump mentioned at the least it hasn’t made him a “basket case.”